Carus
c. 222 CE–c. 283 CE · Narbonne (Provence)
Carus (born c. 222 CE, probably at Narbo in Gallia Narbonensis) became Roman emperor in 282 after the murder of Probus, having served as praetorian prefect. He campaigned successfully against the Sassanid Persians, taking Seleucia and Ctesiphon, before dying suddenly in 283 in Persian territory near the Tigris, reportedly struck by lightning. His reign of barely a year left no documented dealings with Jewish, Christian, or Greek philosophical figures.
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Narbonne (Provence)נרבונאProvence, France
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About Narbonne (Provence)
Narbonne is a town in Occitanie, southern France, near the Mediterranean coast; medieval Jewish sources counted it as part of Provence. Rome founded it in 118 BCE as Narbo Martius, capital of Gallia Narbonensis, and modern scholars incline to place the emperor Carus's birth there. It later passed to the Visigoths, to Andalusian Muslim forces in 719 and to the Franks in 759. In the Middle Ages it was ruled by viscounts and was an archiepiscopal see, held in 1259-1261 by the future Pope Clement IV. Its Jewish community, about 2,000 strong in the twelfth century, was a leading centre of Talmud study and biblical exegesis, home to the Kimhi family, until the French expulsion of 1306.
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